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The Promises and Pitfalls of Robo-Advising
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2018
We study a robo-advising portfolio optimizer that constructs tailored strategies based on in- vestors' holdings and preferences. Adopters are similar to non-adopters in terms of demographics, but have more assets under management, trade more, and have higher risk-adjusted performance. The...
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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Workers Beneath the Floodgates : The Impact of Low-Wage Import Competition and Workers' Adjustment
Utar, Hale - 2017
Using employee-employer matched data for the period 1999 to 2010, I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade. To derive causal effects I exploit the dismantling of import quotas on...
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The Weekend Effect : A Trading Robot and Fractional Integration Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect, one of the most recognized anomalies in financial markets. Two different methods are used: (i) a trading robot approach to examine whether or not there is such an anomaly giving rise to exploitable profit opportunities by...
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Intraday Anomalies and Market Efficiency : A Trading Robot Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
One of the leading criticisms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the presence of so-called "anomalies", i.e. empirical evidence of abnormal behaviour of asset prices which is inconsistent with market efficiency. However, most studies do not take into account transaction costs. Their...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career
Drange, Nina - 2012
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...
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What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision When the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change?
Selin, Hakan - 2012
Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses' retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108088